2005 Illinois Code - Chapter 70 Special Districts 70 ILCS 1585/ Grant Park (1905) Act.

(70 ILCS 1585/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 452.9)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Grant Park (1905) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)

(70 ILCS 1585/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 453)

Sec. 1.

That the land, including all submerged land,
known as Grant Park, in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of
Illinois, bounded on the north by the south line of Randolph street
extended in a straight line east from Michigan avenue to the harbor line
established by the Secretary of War in Lake Michigan, and bounded on the
east by said harbor line, and bounded on the south, east of the right of
way, easement and grounds of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, by the
south line of the street known as Lake Park Place (formerly known as Park
Row) extended in a straight line east from Michigan avenue to said harbor
line, and west of said right of way, easement and grounds by the north line
of said Lake Park place, and bounded on the west by the east line of
Michigan avenue, excepting, however, the right of way, easement and grounds
of the Illinois Central Railroad Company extending north and south through
said Grant Park as described in an ordinance of the City Council of the
City of Chicago, passed October 21, 1895, and published by authority of
said Council in 1898, in volume 2 of Special Ordinances of the City of
Chicago, at page 657, be and the same is hereby conveyed to the South Park
Commissioners, to be held, managed and controlled by said commissioners as
other parks now are under the control of said commissioners.

(Source: Laws 1903, p. 268.)

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